nut

To gather nuts.

Interjection

  1. No.
    • Did you like them boys? I goes. Nut. She shook her hair. Neither? Nut. Right townies. - 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 26:

Origin

Variant of not.

Noun food, lifestyle

  1. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
    • There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

    1. (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

  2. A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
    • As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the...

    Hypernyms: fastener hardware

  3. The head. [from 19th c.]
    • Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head. - 1891, James Main Dixon, Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, page 226:
    • Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed. - 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing,...

    Synonyms: coconut bonce noodle

  4. A crazy person.
    • He was driving his car like a nut.
    • Which one of you nuts has got any guts? - 1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):

    Synonyms: nutjob nut job nutcase nut case nutbag nutter wingnut basket case basket weaver crack crackpot crazy crazyhead dingbat eccentric fruit and nut case fruit cake fruit loop fruitloop head case kook loony loony tune lunatic

  5. An extreme enthusiast.
    • a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
  6. An extravagantly fashionable young man.
    • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in...
  7. Senses related to male genitalia.
    • [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...] - 1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54:
    • GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis. - 1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and...
    • In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis. - 1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest:

    1. (archaic) The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).

    2. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.

      • I kicked him in the nuts.

      Synonyms: ball bollock nads

    3. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.

      • As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose." - 2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:

    4. (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot

      • He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
      • […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […] - 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
  8. Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
    • $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big. - 2025 August 6, “Got a Nut”, in South Park, season 27, episode 2, spoken by Mr. Mackey:
  9. The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
    • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.” - 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005,...
  10. A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
  11. On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
  12. En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

Origin

From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.

Forms

nuts

Synonyms

nut

Hypernyms

food

Hyponyms

Spanish chestnut acorn almond beer nut betel nut brazil nut cashew cashew nut chestnut cobnut coconut conker earthnut goober gooranut groundnut hazel hazelnut macadamia macadamia nut peanut pecan pine nut pistachio

Related

:Category:Nuts Nut (fruit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived

anacardium nut anchor nut areca nut astronut Bambara nut Barbados nut barrel nut connector bat nut bay nut becuiba nut beech nut beechnut beer nut be on someone's nuts betel nut betel nut beauty bitternut bladdernut bloodnut brazil nut Brazil nut Brazil nut effect breadnut bust a nut

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).

Forms

nuts

Synonyms

nut

Hypernyms

food

Hyponyms

Spanish chestnut acorn almond beer nut betel nut brazil nut cashew cashew nut chestnut cobnut coconut conker earthnut goober gooranut groundnut hazel hazelnut macadamia macadamia nut peanut pecan pine nut pistachio

Related

:Category:Nuts Nut (fruit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

  1. To gather nuts.
    • I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe. - 1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists, volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171:
    • […] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!" - 1847, Howitt's...
    • We are going a-nutting. - 1978, Edwin Way Teale, A walk through the year, Dodd, Mead, →ISBN, page 238:
  2. To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
    • One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though...

    Synonyms: butt Glasgow kiss Liverpool kiss loaf

  3. To orgasm; to ejaculate.
    • I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut - 1996, “Bust a Nut”, performed by Uncle Luke featuring The Notorious B.I.G.:
    • Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time. - 2006, Noire [pseudonym],...

    Synonyms: blow a nut bust a nut blow one's load blow one's wad breed bust come cream cum ejaculate explode get off go off jizz juice nut pop shoot a rope shoot off shoot one's load shoot one's wad skeet spray one's shorts sprog

  4. To hit in the testicles.
  5. To defeat thoroughly.

Forms

nuts nutting nutted nut

Related

do one's nut